1971

Although they met a year earlier, Hillary and Bill go on their first date.

1972

Works for Democratic Sen. George McGovern’s presidential campaign.

1973

Receives her Juris doctorate at Yale Law School and begins working as a staff attorney for the Children’s Defense Fund.

1974

Works on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee as a staff attorney for Richard Nixon’s impeachment inquiries. Hillary moves to Arkansas to join Bill, who is running for a U.S. House seat. Hillary helps on the campaign, but Bill goes on to lose to the Republican incumbent, John Paul Hammerschmidt.

1975

Begins teaching at Arkansas Law School. Marries Bill on Oct. 11.

1976

Bill Clinton wins his first election to public office as Arkansas attorney general.

1977

Hillary is appointed by President Carter to the board of the Legal Services Corporation and later becomes chairwoman.

1979

Bill becomes governor, making Hillary the first lady of Arkansas for two years until he loses re-election. That same year, she is named partner at Rose Law Firm in Little Rock.

1980

The Clintons’ daughter, Chelsea, is born on Feb. 27.

The Clintons pose for a family picture on March 5, 1980. (File photo by Donald R. Broyles, AP)

1982

Bill is once again elected governor in his comeback bid, defeating Gov. Frank White. He goes on to win re-election in 1984, 1986 and 1990.

1983

Hillary is appointed by Bill to head the Arkansas Education Standards Committee.

1987

In July, Bill announces he will not seek the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination.

1992

Bill and Hillary appear on 60 Minutes in January to deny accusations that Bill had a long-term affair with a state employee, Gennifer Flowers. During the interview, Hillary said:

“I’m sitting here because I love him, and I respect him and I honor what he’s been through and what we’ve been through together. And you know, if that’s not enough for people, then heck, don’t vote for him.”

In March, Nightline airs Hillary’s controversial comments on her career choice:

“I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life. “

On Nov. 3, Bill is elected president. He claims 43% of the popular vote compared with incumbent President George H.W. Bush’s 38% and Ross Perot’s 19%.

Bill Clinton takes the oath of office as the 42nd U.S. president from Chief Justice William Rehnquist in 1993, as his wife and daughter look on. (File photo by Ed Reinke, AP)

1993

On Jan. 20, Hillary becomes first lady after Bill is sworn in as president.

On Jan. 25, she is named chairwoman of the Health Care Task Force by Bill, making her the first first lady to hold an official position on staff.

1994

Hillary pushes for universal health coverage provided by employers, but the plan does not muster enough support from Congress. Kenneth Starr begins an investigation on a series of real estate investments between the Clintons and Jim and Susan McDougal regarding the Whitewater Development Corp.

1995

Hillary visits China in September for the Fourth World Conference of Women and delivers the famous line:

“Human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights once and for all.”

1996

On Jan. 26, Hillary becomes the only first lady in history to be subpoenaed to testify in front of a grand jury. She publishes her first book, It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us.

On Nov. 5, Bill is re-elected president.

Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton in 1996. (AP/APTN)

1998

During the Whitewater investigation, it’s revealed that Bill had an extramarital affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

In a January appearance on The Today Show, Hillary refers to the allegations against her husband as a “vast right-wing conspiracy.”

On Aug. 17, Bill admits to the “inappropriate relationship” with Lewinsky.

Bill is impeached by the House on two charges on Dec. 19 and acquitted by the Senate early the next year.

1999

Hillary embarks on a “listening tour” in New York state, where she has never lived, as she considers a campaign for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan

2000

On Nov. 7, Hillary is elected to the U.S. Senate. She becomes the first first lady elected to public office.

2002

Sen. Clinton, along with Sens. Jon Corzine, D-N.J., and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., call for a Sept. 11 Investigative Commission in the Homeland Security bill. Hillary joins other members of Congress in authorizing the deployment of troops into Iraq, a vote she later says was “probably the hardest decision I have ever had to make.”

2003

Publishes her first memoirs, Living History, in which she includes comments on the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

Hillary autographs copies of her book, “Living History,” at the Barnes & Noble in New York’s Rockefeller Center on June 9, 2003. (Mary Altaffer, AP)

2005

In an e-mail sent to her supporters on Nov. 29, she discusses her vote to invade Iraq in 2002:

“If Congress had been asked (to authorize war), based on what we know now, we never would have agreed.”

2006

After defeating John Spencer with 67% of the vote, Hillary wins re-election on Nov. 7 to her U.S. Senate seat.

2007

Announces via e-mail and Web video on Jan. 20 that she will be running for president by posting on her website:

“I’m in … and I’m in to win.”

She gains the endorsement of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees on Oct. 31.

On Dec. 8, Chelsea and her grandmother Dorothy Rodham join Hillary in Iowa for their first appearance on the campaign trail.

Hillary speaks at a town hall-style meeting with her daughter, Chelsea, left, and mother, Dorothy Rodham, right at Skydiver’s Hangar and Lounge at the Winterset (Iowa) Municipal Airport on Dec. 8, 2007. (File photo by Kevin Sanders, AP)

2008

On Jan. 3, Hillary places third in the key electoral state of Iowa, trailing both Barack Obama and John Edwards in the primary.

On Jan. 8, she wins the Democratic primary in New Hampshire, garnering 39% of the vote, compared with Obama’s 37% and Edwards’ 17%.

For Super Tuesday on Feb. 5, Hillary wins nine states, closely following Obama, who won in 13. Edwards ended his presidential bid the week before.

In March, Hillary admits that her claims that she came under sniper fire during a 1996 trip to Bosnia as first lady was a “mistake.”

In May, Hillary speaks with reporters in South Dakota, one of whom capture a video of her laugh, sparking discussion of “The Hillary Laugh” and inspiring a Saturday Night Live parody.

Also in May, when speaking with the editorial board of South Dakota’s Sioux Falls Argus-Leader, Hillary references Bobby Kennedy’s assassination in regard to her staying in the race for presidency, sparking controversy:

“My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.”

In June, after losing a number of states, Hillary ends her presidential bid and endorses Barack Obama. In her speech, Clinton says:

“Although we weren’t able to shatter the highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it’s got about 18 million cracks in it. And the light is shining through like never before, filling us all with the hope and the sure knowledge that the path will be a little easier next time.”

In September, Saturday Night Live features a sketch titled “Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton Address the Nation,” featuring Tina Fey as Palin and Amy Poehler as Clinton speaking on sexism in politics.

2009

Becomes secretary of State in January after being nominated by Obama late the previous year following his election as president.

2011

Caught on camera in October checking her cellphone behind sunglasses on a military C-17 plane. The photograph goes viral and leads to the start of the popular Texts from Hillary Tumblr.

Hillary works from a desk inside a C-17 military plane upon her departure from Malta,bound for Tripoli, Libya, on Oct. 18, 2011. (Kevin Lamarque, Pool/AP)

2012

In a March speech to honor Amelia Earhart, Hillary speaks of a letter she wrote to NASA where, at 13, she expressed interest in being an astronaut. She explained that NASA responded by saying “there would not be any women astronauts.”

In May, she engages in negotiations over blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng’s departure.

A U.S. Embassy in Benghazi, Libya, is attacked on Sept. 11, resulting in the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. As secretary of State, Hillary immediately comes under fire as being responsible for preventing such attacks.

On Dec. 15, Hillary sustains a concussion after fainting from dehydration, making her unable to testify before congressional committees investigating the attack on Benghazi, scheduled for later that week.

2014

On April 9, her publisher, Simon & Schuster, announces that her newest memoirs, later dubbed Hard Choices, will be released on June 10.

At a speech in Las Vegas on April 10, a woman in the audience throws a shoe at Hillary as she addresses the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries. Hillary dodges the shoe and says, “My goodness, I didn’t know that solid waste management was so controversial. Thank goodness she didn’t play softball like I did.”